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Ray Martin
Executive Director | email
 
Ray Martin serves as Executive Director of Christian Connections for International Health. He has served on the Board of Directors since 1996 and as Executive Director since 2000. He has 45 years experience as an international development and public health specialist managing the design, implementation and evaluation of large health and population programs.  In a 25-year career with USAID, he was chief of the Health, Population, and Nutrition offices in Zaire, Pakistan, and Cameroon. He also served in Ghana and Morocco with USAID. From 1992 he worked several years on African programs as a public health specialist at the World Bank. He was recently the Chair of the 1600-member International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
 
Ray Martin's international career began as a Mennonite volunteer in community development in Somalia and in refugee development in Tanzania. He has a B.A. in economics from Goshen College, Indiana, an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is fluent in French. In October 2012, Ray Martin received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.    
 
 
Theresa Barrett
Development Officer | email
 
Theresa Barrett serves as CCIH Development Officer. Theresa is responsible for fundraising and resource mobilization, including identifying grant opportunities and writing proposals and applications. She is also tasked with outreach and building relationships with communities of faith and church congregations. Theresa has worked as a consultant and proposal writer since 2006, securing financial support for a variety of nonprofit organizations. Prior to that, she served as a program officer with Associated Black Charities in Baltimore, Md. managing grant portfolios and as an executive administrator with the Atlanta Board of Education in Atlanta, Ga. She has also worked with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Theresa has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 
 
 
Mona Bormet
Project Manager | email
 
Mona Bormet serves as Project Manager for CCIH’s Policy & Advocacy efforts. Previously, Mona served as Advocacy Program Specialist for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, where she focused on national policy efforts to improve data collection and analysis for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations, and efforts to collect and share individual’s health care stories in the policy arena. She also served as a Health Policy Fellow for Congresswoman Lois Capps of California and as an intern with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Mona earned her MPH from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where she served as Student Senate President. Mona’s love of people, culture and food extends from her roots of growing up Korean-American in the suburbs of Chicago to the many people she is fortunate to meet and learn from.
  
 
Randall Cook 
Operations Officer | email
 
Randall Cook serves as Operations Officer. Randall has responsibility for accounting and financial reporting and membership services. Most recently, Randall taught business courses at Washington Bible College in Lanham, Md. and also served as director of operations at the college. He has worked as a business and financial administrator in previous positions and his background includes extensive information technology experience. Randall has a Master in Business Administration from the University of Cambridge in England, a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University in South Carolina and a Bachelors in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
  
 
 
Kathy Erb
Communications Manager | email
 
Kathy Erb serves as a Communications Manager for CCIH. She has experience producing a variety of communication tools for nonprofit organizations, reaching both internal and external audiences. Her experience includes managing web sites and developing annual reports, marketing materials, funding appeals, newsletters, and press releases. Kathy began working with CCIH in 2012 on a series of outreach pieces to communicate the positive impact of family planning programs on the health of women, children and families. She most recently worked with IMA World Health on the development of sermon guides to help spiritual leaders in the developing world communicate healthy practices to their communities. Kathy has an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA from the University of Virginia. 
 
 
 
   Amy Metzger
   Project Manager | email
 
Amy Metzger serves as Project Manager for CCIH's family planning technical support grants, working closely with the CCIH FP/RH working group on activities to further engage and strengthen the capacity of CCIH members in this arena. Amy's graduate concentration is in International Health from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, where she received her MPH. Amy's global health portfolio includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of HIV/AIDS and STIs, health research in the department of International Health at Rollins, malaria research with Dr. Richard Semba of Johns Hopkins University, health technical support at FOCAS and Compassion International, as well as public health consulting projects.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

 
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